Esai
- #1,585 for boys in 2025, 107 births
- Peak · boys
- 2002 · 108 births
- Debut · boys
- 14 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,478since 1987
Esai over time
Rank among boys' names. Esai has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,585 | 107 |
| 2024 | #1,503 | 119 |
| 2023 | #1,640 | 105 |
| 2022 | #1,839 | 87 |
| 2021 | #2,134 | 67 |
| 2020 | #1,849 | 80 |
| 2019 | #2,001 | 73 |
| 2018 | #2,282 | 59 |
| 2017 | #2,270 | 58 |
| 2016 | #2,551 | 49 |
| 2015 | #2,169 | 63 |
| 2014 | #2,154 | 63 |
| 2013 | #1,964 | 70 |
| 2012 | #2,003 | 70 |
| 2011 | #1,866 | 75 |
| 2010 | #2,118 | 63 |
| 2009 | #2,010 | 69 |
| 2008 | #1,916 | 75 |
| 2007 | #2,016 | 69 |
| 2006 | #2,037 | 65 |
| 2005 | #1,506 | 95 |
| 2004 | #1,653 | 78 |
| 2003 | #1,324 | 104 |
| 2002 | #1,258 | 108 |
| 2001 | #2,086 | 50 |
| 2000 | #2,015 | 50 |
| 1999 | #1,692 | 62 |
| 1998 | #1,700 | 60 |
| 1997 | #1,628 | 62 |
| 1996 | #1,434 | 72 |
| 1995 | #1,327 | 78 |
| 1994 | #3,109 | 22 |
| 1993 | #4,020 | 15 |
| 1992 | #3,338 | 19 |
| 1991 | #3,813 | 15 |
| 1990 | #2,952 | 21 |
| 1989 | #2,068 | 34 |
| 1988 | #1,949 | 33 |
| 1987 | #3,339 | 14 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Esai! It came in at #3,339, and was given to 14 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1987, when fewer than 15 boys a year got the name.
Where Esai is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#884 · 1 in 6,749
- Texas#1,070 · 1 in 8,336
- Illinois#1,280 · 1 in 9,910
Best ever in a state: #247 in New Mexico, 2003.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| California | #884 | 26 | 1 in 6,749 |
| Texas | #1,070 | 21 | 1 in 8,336 |
| Illinois | #1,280 | 5 | 1 in 9,910 |
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See more about Esai
- 82 spots since 2024 (#1,503 → #1,585)
- 264 spots since 2020 (#1,849 → #1,585)
- Debuted 1987
- Peaked 2002 at #1,258 (108 births)
- Births halved by 2016, 14 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 14,478 boys born in 2024 were named Esai (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 15,963 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #1,258 in 2002, was only 1 in 17,977 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 30.8% of all boys named Esai (763) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 81 | #1,949 (1988) | #2,452 |
| 1990s | 426 | #1,327 (1995) | #2,501 |
| 2000s | 763 | #1,258 (2002) | #1,782 |
| 2010s | 643 | #1,866 (2011) | #2,138 |
| 2020s | 565 | #1,503 (2024) | #1,758 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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